He ordered her to slice open one of her fingers so he could suck at the wound and told her: "Now you are in my veins and this is for life."

He raped her, and attacked her with a bottle and a chair.

In evidence, Weekes denied any wrongdoing. He described the woman, who for legal reasons cannot be named, as a "Goth Pagan with vampiric overtones". He claimed she seduced him, but insisted on the blood games that followed.

The jury convicted him of one charge of rape, two of indecent assault, as well as unlawful imprisonment, causing actual bodily harm and outraging public decency in January this year. Judge Timothy King told the jury he was considering a life term.